eHub Interviews Photophlow
"Photophlow is a web application that lets you share photos in real-time. It is meant to be used for all types of interactions around photos - organized activities such as group critiques and tutorials, as well as just plain hanging out and sharing. Photophlow has a chat component, but it offers a lot more than "chat with photos". It's deeply integrated with Flickr so you can comment on photos, "fave" them, tag them, etc., all of which are reflected on Flickr and are also shared with the group you're interacting with in real-time..."
MakeMeSustainable is a catalyst for change, empowering individuals to reduce their environmental impact by connecting how we feel about our environment with how we choose to behave. We provide users with industry-leading energy management tools that allow them to fully understand their carbon footprint and begin taking actions to decrease their environmental impact and financial costs on a real-time basis. MakeMeSustainable also seeks to foster the growth of communities concerned with the environment and the rising cost of energy, helping individuals encourage their friends, and family to be a part of this growing movement for change.
"We are about making it easier to teach, learn and to know what is going on with your children if they are in school. Teachers want to teach; they don't have time to do much more than that. haiku LMS takes about 15 to 20 minutes per week to maintain...haiku LMS lets teachers put a classroom website online quickly and easily, with no need for technical experience. Our focus is to give teachers the tools they really need to communicate with students & parents without extra fluff or hard to learn features..."
"We make shirts that text back. Customers choose a slogan and optional image for their shirts, as well as a color and size, and we custom make a shirt for them which people can text to and receive a text response from. Customers are using Reactee shirts to promote small businesses, non-profits and large media brands. Individuals are also having fun with them using them to engage with the people around them."
"Qunu is about RIGHT NOW! Not in 5 minutes or two hours or 3 days. Qunu is about instantly finding and talking to someone who most likely knows what you don't..."
"Lending Club is an online lending community where people borrow and lend money among each other, bypass the banks, and get better rates. By working together, members can borrow money at a better rate than they would get from a bank, or invest in a pool of loans at higher rates than those served by savings accounts. We launched exclusively on Facebook on May 24, 2007."
"MDjunction.com is about doing good. We are building a Health community and center for Online Support Groups... About a year ago a friends' mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, we searched the web to find information and support. We found many info sites, forums and mailing lists but not a community of patients..."
"Wesabe provides a Web-based tool that gives our members a better understanding of how they spend, and links them to a community dedicated to helping each other get more for their money. Wesabe aggregates and analyzes financial transaction data from members' bank and credit card accounts, and delivers customized, money-saving tips based on members' actual purchases. These tips come from other members, allowing everyone in the Wesabe community to benefit from its collective wisdom."
"IMified is all about providing an easy and consistent interface to the tools and services you use everyday without launching a web browser. We feel that IM lends itself to more than just "chatting". IM is always on, offers presence, and and is really simple to use. We're extending its use to actually help you get things done."
"Menuism is a community-based restaurant guide where you can "rate what you ate" at restaurants. You can keep track of where and what you ate while also getting daily recommendations from your friends. You can find all the information you need to make a decision about a restaurant, from the user reviews and food ratings, to the menus and food photos, to links to external reviews. And if you don't find the information here, you can add it yourself!"
"StartForce is your broadband desktop. A 'Click and Run' rich application delivered through a familiar Windows-like desktop experience inside your favorite web browser." Currently available for Japan with an English version coming soon.
"Our service with TasteTV is to provide some of the best independently produced food, wine and lifestyle programming to our online and on demand communities, and allow them to participate in what we do as Tastemakers, Tastesetters or Taste Producers. Our programs run a fairly large range of topics, from restaurant reveiws, sexy dishes, chocolate, wine, chef demos, to fashion shows, model cooks, product and book reviews, and travel. The programs come from around the world, including the US, UK, France, Japan and Australia..."
"EveryTrail is a free online platform that enables active travelers and outdoor enthusiasts of all kinds to visualize and share trips using GPS data, digital photos and location-based notes overlaid on interactive maps..."
"Planypus lets friends easily and casually make plans together. One person has called this 'organized spontaneity'. Instead of calling or emailing several friends and trying to negotiate where you want to go on a Friday night, Planypus makes it easy for one person to post "let's go to dinner", while the rest of his friends suggest times and places, vote, figure out what they want to do, and then everyone can get notified where to be via email, rss, or text messages...
"We're a global collaborative reporting on trends, insights and inspriational news. Over 50 global contributors provide blogs on trends, marketing ideas, fashion and eco-conscious issues at 
"Squirl is a website where people can post collections of their treasured things - we have customized templates for 35 different categories of collectibles - and organize and share these collections with others. It is both a cataloging tool and a social platform..."
"The blueorganizer is about the next generation of the Internet browsers. Today browsers sees the web as just code and markup. They do not recognize actual objects like movies, wines and cars. The browsers do not know what you like and can not personalize your web experiences. This is about to change. The new browsers will be context-sensitive and focused on semantics..."
"Our service is a web-based chat. The differentiators are as follows: 1. Super light and fast without any plugins, 2. No signup required, 3. Connecting people by tags, 4. Embedding images and movies directly in a chat room, 5. Allowing private use as well, 6. Chat logs are fully archived."
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Mikons.com, the website, is about reintroducing an ancient way to communicate that uses modern technology (the web) as the vehicle for that communication. It is about connecting people through visual symbols that they can draw using our Mikon Machine..."
"BillMonk helps friends solve the awkwardness of borrowing money and stuff by making it easy to track what happens. We launched in January 2006 with the ability to track informal debts among friends ("social money"): roommates splitting rent and utilities, borrowing $20, group vacations, etc. Our hybrid of social networking and personal finance proved immensely popular; without any marketing, in 12 weeks we had over 5000 users using more than 30 currencies..."
"Organizing your deals. Pipeline is a sales tool for small businesses to manage their deals. Sales personnel can organize their deals and keep all of their contacts, files, documents, notes, maps, and directions for a deal in one place..."
"14 Dayz is a simple on-line service with which you can log your hours and create specific reports. 14Dayz is suitable for teams but also for individual use. A lot of attention and detail have gone into usability. 14Dayz takes the hassle out of your spread sheet based time tracking solution and makes time registration fun and simple."
Last month I had the pleasure of hearing from Kaori Omoto, an editor at CNET Networks Japan. Today, eHub Interviews went live as a channel at the Japanese version of News.com. See 
"16bugs is about making bug tracking an easier task. Most available alternatives are most of the time difficult to install and use and with the big amount of features they provide they're kind of overkill for small and medium projects..."
"PiXPO is the ultimate tool for broadcasting your videos and media files (photos and music) from your own PC. There are no uploads or transcoding needed. Up until now, trying to get more than one or two videos onto the Internet has been a huge hassle. Now, all you have to do is dump all your media files into PiXPO and hit one button..."
"Huckabuck is a new search interface. We call it a search interface because it is more than just a metasearch engine. When you submit a search query, it searches the three major engines: Google, Yahoo, and MSN. But what makes Huckabuck different is that we enable you to tune your search to match your personal preferences for each engine. This tuning is done through a graphic equalizer style interface that is instantly recognizable to the user..."
"Amiglia is a social software site for families, focused particularly on sharing photos and building a family tree."
"Peer-to-peer trading of real media. By adding your media to the lendmonkey virtual library you gain access to the library of everyone else that has joined. Give someone something and you'll get a media credit for that type of media. You can use the credit to get something of the same type from anyone else in the community..."
"eVokeTV is basically a television program guide. What sets it apart is it's ease of use and community building features. Each show that is on right now, has a real-time chat room connecting people together that are watching the same thing at the same time. There's also a script tag you can add to your website/blog which displays what show you are watching and chatting about at that moment..."
"Shopify is about removing the barriers that have kept the masses from setting up their own fully functional e-commerce sites. Essentially, we provide access to a simplified e-commerce system that has all of the features you need and none of the features you don't..."
"TailRank is a memetracker which reads blogs "so you don't have to." Essentially we find the hottest news stories among the top 50k blogs and present them in an easy to use interface."
"Mobilicio.us is a mashup combining the del.icio.us online bookmarking service with Google's Mobile Search tool. This allows you to browse through "mobilized" versions of your del.icio.us bookmarks from your phone browser or other limited-display browsers. It also prevents you from having to enter long URLs into the Google Mobile search in order to "mobilize" a site..."
"It's an AJAX-based hotel booking system implemented on one single page...We wanted to demonstrate how AJAX can improve usability."
"Oyogi helps people get answers to questions by interacting with experts (aka 'yogis'). We do this by providing a way for people to: 1) Post specialties (resumes) that are searchable, 2) Collaborate and mentor each other in real-time using web-based Instant Messaging 3) Ask and respond to questions 4) Search 1/2/3 in real-time."
"Squidoo is a platform that lets anyone build one or more 'lenses', single pages about a given topic. These lenses contain links, bullet lists, maps, affiliate items for purchase, RSS feeds and more. Sort of Wikipedia meets About.com and blogging."
"Our tag line is 'Social bookmarking for the product and shopping obsessed' but more broadly, the Stylehive is about the excitement of finding and sharing fresh new things on the net. The Stylehive is the place where social bookmarking and shopping merge. We've created the hive as a place where you can find hot products, places and trends. Stylehive will also help you connect to and track others who are obsessed with the products and brands you covet."
"PXN8 is an online photo editor which can be licensed and customized for use on web servers. It supports basic editing features like 'crop','rotate', fixing red-eye etc. It also has some cool 'toys' like 'lomoize' (makes photos look like they were taken with a lomo camera). If you have a flickr account, you can easily load and save images to flickr."
"Homethinking helps home owners pick the most exceptional realtors to sell their house with. It does that by monitoring real estate transactions to know which homes realtors have sold, for how much and how long on average it took them to do so. There are also reviews by prior home sellers about the job they did. Sort of an Epinions for real estate agents."
"Pooln is a social network based carpool matching tool. The idea is to try to use social networks plus geographic information to find people for users to carpool with."
"Clipmarks is a free service that enables you to clip and tag pieces of information you find on web pages without having to bookmark the entire page."
"We search travel suppliers (airlines, hotels, car rentals) so consumers can search once, find the best price and book where they want."
"Lopico is a directory of favorite local businesses built completely on user input. Users suggest their favorite businesses, which are then posted to the site; after that businesses are ranked by votes so that people can quickly and easily find great local businesses. For now it's primarily focused on high level takeaways, but I just launched a review program called "Lopico Lovers" that gives site users the opportunity to say why they think the businesses that they've voted for should be number one in the Lopico rankings."
"Pageflakes is a personalized online desktop that allows users to read news and blogs, check their email, start Web searches and access a variety of services like Del.icio.us or Flickr, all conveniently accessible from any computer and from one page. Basically it's all your daily information and needs in one place. Hence our slogan: The Web at your fingertips."
"Fotolia is a social market place for digital stock Images. We aim to provide the tools to democratize the legal use of stock images while allowing photographers of all levels to begin or diversify their revenue streams."
"Userplane provides a suite of communication tools that enable live conversations, with full audio/video and text, within the web browser. This system was originally designed and implemented through a subscription model and has recently progressed into a free, no-install ad-supported model as well."
"GiveMeaning is the network for the $5 philanthropist. We believe that everyone cares about something, but most of us don't think the small contribution we can individually afford could possibly make a difference...what we do is take an issue as big as say, cancer, and focus on achieving an objective that is tangible and within the realm of possibility - like a specific person's treatment, or funding a support group..."
Wink is about "searching the tagged Web. Applying user intent - in the form of tags, rating, blocking, etc - to find relevant results when you want to know what other people think is most interesting for a given search."
"Prodigem is a web service which simplifies BitTorrent publishing into simple upload, point and click. Moreover, our API allows any web application to have built in support for BitTorrent creation and seeding by relying on Prodigem to do all the legwork."
"PixPulse is a mobile media publishing platform for sharing photos and videos directly to mobile devices. We want people to create, broadcast and share personalized media and daily life experiences on their own PixPulse Channel. PixPulse is not a photo storing site or another social network. PixPulse is a mobile network for sharing "live" in-the-moment media with your friends who get to instantly view and comment in real-time..." 
"NetworthIQ is a social personal finance tool. It allows you to track, share, and compare your net worth. It aims to take the Flickr/Del.icio.us/43things model of sharing and apply it to personal finance. Users can track their progress towards financial goals and see how they're doing compared to others in their same state, age group, education level, occupation and income range..."
"Delineate is a centralised visitor tracking XML based web service, with an XHTML/CSS/Javascript interface. It is hosted, easy to install and free. It is also an example of social software - all the data collected by it's users adds to the information it can provide. For example you can get your browser statistics and compare these with the entire community of delineate users."
"gOFFICE.com is a browser-based office suite. Output is in PDF. Currently we offer word processing and desktop publishing (though the latter only offers a taste of what's to come). Our site lets you print very high quality output directly from the site, without requiring Word. We have a sample text library, and users can print, save, email, and fax from the site..."
"Feedmarker is an RSS reader and bookmarker with tagging. It's like del.icio.us + bloglines...I started building Feedmarker about a year ago because I wanted to be able to tag my bookmarks and read my feeds in the same application."
"vSocial, at its core, is about two things. One is really nailing the "job" of making the video upload and sharing process brain dead simple so it just works. This extends to sub tasks like uploading, encoding, descriptions, tagging, ratings, user comments, syndication, integration with video iPods, and sharing and embedding in remote sites. The other is enabling users to actually "do something" with video clips beyond the site just being a big hard drive..."
"Yoono is a tool for collaborative searching, sharing and exchanging information. Its particularity is bringing together functions which are more or less already available on the web but are scattered. Yoono includes Social Bookmarking functions, search functions to identify similar web sites and experts, an RSS reader and a RSS creator..."
"SuprGlu is about allowing people to pick up the bits and pieces of themselves scattered around the web and being able to put it all together in the form of a digital scrapbook. We want people to have an easy way to share things about themselves beyond the specific online communities they participate in."
"We help you make good decisions about where to spend your time and money by swapping advice with people you trust. Our site makes it easy for anyone to write about the people, places and things they care about, wrapping structured 'information objects' like local business and product listings with their personal experiences and opinions..."
"RawSugar is a social search engine powered by member's knowledge, where search is accelerated by guiding results with member-designated tags. We're an online community with over 135,000 tagged URLs shared in the two months..."
"Word of Blog.net is based on the concept of sell-side advertising. It enables bloggers to choose the ads that appear on their page, because they know better than anybody else who their readers are. As a result, ads get a higher degree of relevance and appear as a recommendation from the blogger, ensuring higher click through rates..."
What is Yellowikis? Open business listings. "Imagine the 10 month old love-child of Yellow Pages and Wikipedia..." 
"AirSet is a Lifeware service. Our goal is to simplify our users' lives by letting them manage all of the important information, for all of the important people in their lives, all in one place. AirSet provides a shared address book, calendar, to do lists, blogs, and web links. Unlike existing online group management solutions that treat each group as a silo, AirSet is designed to let you manage all of the important groups in your life at once..."
"It's about saving time, being more productive, and getting paid faster - stuff that is really important to small businesses including design firms, computer service firms, freelancers, consultants and other service-based companies."
"LinkPut is a search engine where each result has its own mini-wiki. The community can edit these wikis so that a sites description is clearer to a user performing a search. For instance, if you do a search via Yahoo for "Emily Chang, ehub", we get the following..."
"SWiK is a community resource for open technology. You can gather notes or write howtos and share them or work on them with others. Adding and relating open source projects is really simple, SWiK finds information about any project automatically from the internet. Pages are also automatically related to each other, so you can make a page on your personal SWiK user page or syndicate your blog on SWiK and your posts will appear on pages about topics you reference."
"Millionsofgames aims to be the largest directory of community bookmarked casual games. We built MOG out of a basic links site that we'd always talked about building and we're convinced that casual games are a candidate for tagging since bookmarking and sharing links on del.icio.us is a lot of fun."
"Orangoo is a web-based feedreader. Orangoo makes Google reader look bad, enough said :) Try it out if you don't believe me, hehe. But Orangoo is far from the goal..."
"Fundable.org lets groups of people pool money for various purposes in what are called "group actions." Similar to an online auction, a group action has its own page, describing how much money will be collected and what the money will do. No participant takes a risk: if the collection for a group action falls short of its goal on deadline, all money is refunded."
"LibraryThing allows you to catalog your books online, drawing on Amazon and over 30 libraries around the world. While you catalog you can also tag your books, prompting some to call it Flickr for books..."
"All of them - globally - are meant to make the life easier in specific areas. For example, MyProgs allows to find new useful programs in categories of your interest, Reader2 allows to find new interesting books in genres you prefer, and so on. There are several web services..."
"Atiki is a personalised prospective search tool: you chose keywords you are interested in, our service continuously scans feeds from around the web (websites and blogs) and sends you the results either via e-mail or to a personalised RSS feed (so you don't need to subscribe to multiple ones). In order to organise your search, you can also group several keywords under the same tag. You are free to share your personalised RSS feed with others."
"Campaign Monitor allows designers to send email newsletters, manage their subscribers and see reports on sent campaigns for themselves and their clients. Unlike competing products, it's been built just for web designers and includes a number of unique features that makes sending permission based email campaigns a breeze."
"CommonTimes is a community news aggregator which uses the social bookmarking and tagging model to build a community newspaper. Users can customize the front page and get read their news via RSS."
"Slawesome lets you send emails with your voice... the basic service is free. It runs in any browser. You and the recipient don't need a special client."
"Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. It looks through digital photos that people have posted to the popular picture-sharing website Flickr.com, and places them on a map of the US. The act of tagging a photo with a city or state name (or both) is enough for Mappr to make a best guess as to where that photo was taken..."
"It is about discovering new music and getting connected to people into the same music as you..."
"Findory is a personalized news site that learns from the news you read, searches thousands of feeds worldwide, and builds you a personalized front page. It's easy to use. Just read articles! Findory learns from the articles you read and helps you find other interesting articles. We also have early products in personalized web search and personalized advertising."
"hackoff.com is an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble. It is serialized on a blog platform so that daily episodes can be read online, received by RSS fed or by email subscription. Complete chapter PDFs are also available. The blook (book on a blog platform) also includes a faux company web site for the fictional company in the book, a user forum, and a wiki. Access to all including subscription services is free under a creative commons license. A traditional hard cover of the novel will be available early in 2006."
"eyeOS is an open source web-based desktop system, which includes some base applications and the ability of installing new "eyeApps" and "eyeWidgets" previously packaged by an application manager..."
"Voo2do is a web-based task manager. There are oodles of to-do list systems on the web--Voo2do is different because it lets you keep notes, time estimates, and priorities for each task you enter..."
"PageBites is a job and resume search engine. We crawl the web for both job postings and resumes. We also allow employers to post jobs on our site, and we allow job seekers to post their resume on our site. All of our services are free."
"It's simply a file browser for looking through the files stored on your webserver...It was an application that I needed and I figured that if I need it, other people probably do also."
"We have two primary AJAX applications on Blog Flux. Firstly is MapStats, which integrates the Google Maps API with a full-featured stat tracker. The other is our Pinger, which performs blog pings using AJAX."
"It's about one of the most important components in visual appearance of websites; color. I find that many web designers lack the ability to choose colors that actually work together. The ColorBlender tool addresses this issue by automatically generating matching colors from just a single arbitrary base color."
"elfURL.com provides URL shortening combined with stats via RSS, delicious tags and Microformats Rel-Tags. ElfURL is part of a larger project called "Big in Japan" that will include various tools including FrankenFeed, MailFeed, smsFEEDs, FeedVault, and Feeds-by-Mail."
"goowy (re) is a rich experience destination site that offers its members access to an advanced set of interactive applications including web mail, contacts, calendar, virtual desktop, games, widgets, and more. These applications are developed to leverage the latest developments in web technologies to provide goowy members a more powerful, dynamic experience."
"CafeSpot is all about finding those great little independently owned cafes, coffee shops, and restaurants that are often hidden and word-of-mouth only."
"The vision and goal of BlinkList is to be the leading "Personal Discovery Engine" where people come to discover, share, and organize the most recent and relevant information available online. Before BlinkList, saving and finding saved bookmarks was a frustrating user experience. In addition, sharing links and finding the top links that your friends or peers have been discovering was close to impossible. BlinkList is attempting to solve both problems..."
"Codase is a new source code search engine. Rather than treating code as text, Codase understands programming languages, and treats code as code."
"My service, Openomy, is what I'm calling an 'online file system.' It's online file storage with a major (web 2.0) twist-- open APIs. This means developers can get and store user's files by simply calling the APIs. In another twist, Openomy organizes files and connects users via tags, rather than folders."
"It's all about making an extremely dull task faced by academics a little bit more bearable. There's an important principle in science that in order to be a well-behaved member of the club, you need to record the full details of all the relevant academic articles you read in the process of discovering your Grand Theory of Everything... "
"Plazes is a grass-root approach to locality and personal mapping. It allows users to share their location with others as well as managing and publishing their favorite plazes."
"Kiko is about making the personal calendar an easy enough tool that anyone can (and will want to) use it. Soon it will also be about finding new useful ways to share calendars and integrate meta data with personal schedules."
"Netvibes is a customizable web 2.0 application that helps you simplify your digital life."
"Central Desktop is a productivity environment for teams. Most users use our service for functions that require group collaboration such as project management, company intranets, managing complex sales opportunities, product development cycles or organizing research..."
"Protopage is a personal springboard - everything you need quick access to on the web, all on one page...AJAX created the opportunity to deliver an extraordinary user experience."
"CommunityWalk is a loosely defined project that allows people to create maps of a community. A community is really any number of physical locations that have something in common."
"Writely is a web-based, collaborative word processor. It allows you to edit documents online with whomever you choose, and then publish and/or blog them online. You can edit them together at the same time, or separately."
